Prospects for dark matter detection with IceCube in the context of the CMSSM

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Trotta, Roberto ^a   Ruiz De Austri, Roberto ^b   Pérez De Los Heros, Carlos ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dark matter experiments; Dark matter theory; Neutrino astronomy; Neutrino detectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350695830     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/08/034     Document Type: Article

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